Coptic (Qwerty) Keyboard Help
This keyboard layout is designed for typing the Coptic script. This English QWERTY-based keyboard layout is optimized for English-language typists. It is based on an English-specific transliteration and is probably going to be most popular with English-speaking Copticists.
In order to fully access all the keys on this keyboards, you will need a keyboard (hardware) with 102 keys (US keyboards tend to only have 101 keys).
Additionally, this keyboard makes use of SHIFT+RALT keys which are set by default when Keyman is installed. To use this keyboard, you must go to Configuration.../Hotkeys and select the hotkey for "Switch Keyman Desktop Off". Either change the hotkey or turn it off. Do the same for "Open Keyboard Menu" and for "Open Language Switcher".
The Antinoou font was developed by the author of this keyboard and supports the standard Coptic characters. However, it does not yet support the Coptic Epact Numbers. The Symbola font does include support for the Coptic Epact Numbers. Because of licensing issues, neither of these fonts is included in this keyboard package.
If square boxes are displayed instead of characters when using this keyboard (and in the keyboard layouts below), please read our troubleshooting guide.
Keyboard layout
The main keyboard layout is listed below. There are some extra keystrokes needed in order to access more uncommon characters.
- ; (macron): Ⲁ̄ⲁ̄(ⲁ) Ⲃ̄ⲃ̄(ⲃ) Ⲅ̄ⲅ̄(ⲅ) …
- shift-, (left half macron): Ⲁ︤ⲁ︤(ⲁ) Ⲃ︤ⲃ︤(ⲃ) Ⲅ︤ⲅ︤(ⲅ) …
- shift-; (conjoining macron): Ⲁ︦ⲁ︦(ⲁ) Ⲃ︦ⲃ︦(ⲃ) Ⲅ︦ⲅ︦(ⲅ) …
- shift-. (right half macron): Ⲁ︥ⲁ︥(ⲁ) Ⲃ︥ⲃ︥(ⲃ) Ⲅ︥ⲅ︥(ⲅ) …
- shift-ralt-\ (overline for numbers): Ⲁ̅ⲁ̅(ⲁ) Ⲃ̅ⲃ̅(ⲃ) Ⲅ̅ⲅ̅(ⲅ) …
- ralt-1 (dot below): Ⲁ̣ⲁ̣(ⲁ) Ⲃ̣ⲃ̣(ⲃ) Ⲅ̣ⲅ̣(ⲅ) …
- ralt-2 (dot above): Ⲁ̇ⲁ̇(ⲁ) Ⲃ̇ⲃ̇(ⲃ) Ⲅ̇ⲅ̇(ⲅ) …
- ralt-3 (circumflex): Ⲁ̂ⲁ̂(ⲁ) Ⲃ̂ⲃ̂(ⲃ) Ⲅ̂ⲅ̂(ⲅ) …
- ralt-7 (diaeresis): Ⲁ̈ⲁ̈(ⲁ) Ⲃ̈ⲃ̈(ⲃ) Ⲅ̈ⲅ̈(ⲅ) …
- ` (grave): Ⲁ̀ⲁ̀(ⲁ) Ⲃ̀ⲃ̀(ⲃ) Ⲅ̀ⲅ̀(ⲅ) …
- shift-` (acute): Ⲁ́ⲁ́(ⲁ) Ⲃ́ⲃ́(ⲃ) Ⲅ́ⲅ́(ⲅ) …
- shift-ralt-/ (double circumflex): no precomposed characters
- ralt-m (ni above): no precomposed characters
- shift-ralt-b (spiritus asper): Ⲏ⳰ⲏ⳰(ⲏ)
- ralt-k (spiritus lenis): Ⲏ⳱ⲏ⳱(ⲏ)
- shift-ralt-3 (‖): ⳥(ⲙ) ⳦(ⲡ) ⳧(ⲥ) ⳨(ⲧ) ⳩(ⲭ) ⳪(ϭ) ⳤ(ⲕ) ‖(space)
- ralt-b (⸖): Ⲷⲷ(ⲉ) Ⲽⲽ(ⲛ) Ⳬⳬ(ϣ) Ⳮⳮ(ϫ) ⸏ (-) ⸐ (=)Ⳳⳳ(ⲭ) ⸴(;) ⸳(:) ⳹(.) ⳼(,) ⳺(/) ⳻(\) ⸖(space)
- ralt-\ (epact numbers): 𐋡 (1), 𐋢 (2), 𐋣 (3), 𐋤 (4), 𐋥 (5), 𐋦 (6), 𐋧 (7), 𐋨 (8), 𐋩 (9)
- shift-ralt-\ (epact numbers): 𐋪 (1), 𐋫 (2), 𐋬 (3), 𐋭 (4), 𐋮 (5), 𐋯 (6), 𐋰 (7), 𐋱 (8), 𐋲 (9)
- shift-ralt-3 (epact numbers): 𐋳 (1), 𐋴 (2), 𐋵 (3), 𐋶 (4), 𐋷 (5), 𐋸 (6), 𐋹 (7), 𐋺 (8), 𐋻 (9), 𐋠 (,)
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